Hi all,
I'm trying to set-up an experimental instance of ALA for
Belgium. The idea is to present all data published by our
belgian institutions, in order to give those institutations /
collections / datasets more visibility.
What's the recommended way to load this data (everything at GBIF
published by Belgian institutions). I used the "Add all GBIF
resource for a country" from the Collectory admin interface, but
1) I encountered some errors. All datasets detected correctly,
but only 10 are loaded - for the rest I get the message "Failed.
Please check your authentication credentials are valid". The
authentication credentials are indeed correct, since I only
entered once (so, also for the working dataset). When looking at
my downloads on the GBIF website, I can see no track those
"failed" datasets. Can I get debugging information ? Should I
fill a bug report ? In the ala-collectory repository ? Or some
other ?
2) Also, the /collectory/manage/gbifLoadCountry pages states
that "This is a simple method of bootstrapping an installation
with data provided by GBIF web services. This is not intended
for long-term production use.". So maybe I should use another
method to load all the data for my country.
3) How are the (dataset) metadata populated when using this
method ? It seems the basic metadata is there, but not much
more. Should we do it by hand ? Should we write a tool to do it
? How about updates?
Thanks a lot!